Tuesday, March 29, 2016

BigTweed will return to the Roadshow Revival lineup this summer in Mission Park, as the Roadshow takes over beautiful downtown Ventura! We'll take the stage on Sunday, June 26, but where we play depends on YOU!

Again, we'll have the chance to play the main stage, but to do that we'll need you to buy your tickets for Sunday at https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1080067 and enter TWEED2016 as your promo code. This will also get you a cool 15% off your tickets prices... so it works out for the both of us.

Also, don't forget to check out BigTweed's Instagram at www.instagram.com/_bigtweed_
... email or message us your pics of the band, and we'll make sure to
post them! (don't worry, we'll give you photo credit... how about great
shots of your BigTweed hat?)

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sunday, March 22, 2015

If you haven't already, check out this great review of How the West Was Young by the VC Reporter's Chris Jay...

Big Tweed

How the West Was YoungWith
vinyl all the rage lately, surprisingly, one of the most passed-over
sections at Salzer’s Records is the country music $1 bin. The crammed
section is filled with forgotten names of country music’s past when the
genre wasn’t the watered-down commercial mess it is today. Though you
won’t find Big Tweed’s new release in that section for obvious reasons,
musically speaking, the songs, production and playing are reminiscent of
the type of lost gems you’d find there. Chock-full of twang riffing,
scaled-back production and solid songwriting, Big Tweed has grown leaps
and bounds since its last release. Always a great live band and a staple
at local events, Big Tweed has made a record that holds up to its
dance-friendly live shows. “Saddles” perhaps the record’s standout
track, wouldn’t be out of place on a Gram Parsons record, and the
equally impressive “Leaving El Paso” could easily be mistaken for a
Merle Haggard or George Jones tune. Speaking of Jones, the record
features an obligatory cover of his “Shakin’ the Blues.” But besides
that, the smoking 11-tracker is all original material by the band’s
chief songwriters, Mike Askay and Christian Gallo. Instrumentals such as
“The Jerusalem Cricket Rag” and “The Longhorn Situation” should also
satisfy those who appreciate lap steel and double-neck guitar shredding
as much as forlorn lyrics of heartbreak and desert watering holes.
Simply put, this is throwback honky-tonk country music done right and
one of the best recent local releases.
— Chris Jay.